Mashups

Dan Woods Featured Presenter at Mashup Camp

On Nov. 17-19, an "unconference" called Mashup Camp will be held in Mountain View, Calif. Mashup Camp bills itself as "The Unconference for the Uncomputer," and our very own Dan Woods will be one of the featured presenters, along with Web 2.0 luminaries such as Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and John Musser of ProgrammableWeb and about 17 others.

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How Mashups are Transforming Corporations

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods examines how user-driven innovation in the use of mashups is transforming the relationship between IT and other parts of the corporation.

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'Mashup Corporations' Gets a Shout-Out

A blog called Service Oriented Enterprise has a post titled Talking to the Business About SOA, which touches on some of the challenges organizations face when trying to approach the business side about SOA. At the end of the post, the author begins discussing mashups, and goes on to recommend Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual, which Dan Woods coauthored.

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Serious Shadow Games

Dan Woods is a featured blogger on Forbes.com. His JargonSpy blog was launched on July 28 and the first installment, called Serious Shadow Games, delves into the phenomenon of shadow IT.

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Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual

Mashup Corporations: The End of Business as Usual tells the tale of Vorpal Inc., a company that pioneers the implementation of service-oriented architecture to transform its business model. CEO Jane Moneymaker believes in marketing manager Hugo Wunderkind's idea of creating a new market using non-traditional methods based on mashups, but struggles to achieve this vision. The story illustrates what it takes to achieve cultural change, overturning established business and IT structures. By embracing a service-oriented approach Moneymaker makes Vorpal faster, flexible, and more responsive, bringing an end to business as usual.

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